Santa brought me a new laptop

[Bill Thorson]

NCLUGers,

Santa brought me a new Lenovo Ideapad 5x 14" Touchscreen Laptop 
<https://www.costco.com/lenovo-ideapad-5x-14-2-in-1-touchscreen-laptop-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-plus-oled-1920-x-1200-windows-11-copilot+-pc.product.4000305603.html>.  
Santa's buying points at CostCO were:

  * $150 off the regular price till Dec 25
  * 90 day return for any reason if I don't like it (doesn't do Linux well).
  * 2yr warranty


I have been using Linux on my desktops/laptops since Softlanding Linux 
System (SLS) in about 1993.  I haven't touched any Windows since about 
Windows 95 in 2000.  I'm working on a desktop application that I want to 
eventually work on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Therefore, I've decided to 
maybe dual boot this laptop so I can play with and test the future 
Windows version of my app. Of course the default boot OS will be Linux.  
I can go into the boot menu if I want Windoz.

I decided to try Debian Live (debian-live-12.8.0-amd64-mate.iso) on a 
USB stick to see how it will run on the new hardware.  Then, if good I 
can maybe use the included Calamares installer to install.  I just dd'd 
that image to the thumb drive so it's in iso9660 format. Linux has no 
problem mounting it.

Now's where the complications are occurring for this old-timer:

  * Boot from USB:  I got into the boot menu (F12) and it doesn't see
    the drive.  I found the BIOS menu (F2) and it says USB Boot is Enabled.
  * In BIOS turned off secure boot but wouldn't boot without a 48 did
    get BitLocker recovery key.  I turned secure boot turned back on.
  * In Windoz turned off BitLocker and decrypted the disk. Re-entered
    BIOS and turned off secure boot again.  This time it doesn't
    complain about recovery key at all but the Boot menu still doesn't
    see the USB disk.


Could this be because it's in the iso format?  Windoz Disk Management 
tool says it's "29.30 GB RAW; Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)" 
whatever that means.

Any suggestions appreciated!

Bill
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